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Monday, September 7, 2015

2015 Week Two Recap & Match Notes: Evansville

Tennessee had another successful weekend, going 4-0 in the Tennessee Volleyball Classic. They have a Tuesday night match at home vs Evansville this week before leaving Knoxville for two weeks of away tournaments.

  • Tennessee is 1-0 all-time vs Evansville, having faced them for the first time last season.
  • Since 2001, UT is 2-2 vs Missouri Valley Conference teams.
  • In the past 12 years the Lady Vols have only played six matches on a Tuesday, and are 4-2.

    UT TUESDAY MATCHES SINCE 2003
    9/14/2004 Lipscomb 3-0
    9/19/2006 Louisville 3-1
    10/16/2007 Louisville 1-3
    10/14/2008 ETSU 3-0
    10/19/2010 Florida 0-3
    9/9/2014 Evansville 3-1

  • Nine of the 15 Purple Ace players come from outside the contiguous United States. Seven are from the US territory Puerto Rico, one is from Buenos Aires, and one is from Serbia.

    EVANSVILLE PURPLE ACES
    Tuesday, September 8th
    7:00pm ET // Knoxville TN
        2015 Record: 3-4 (0-0 MVC)
    WEBSITE // VIDEO // STATS

  • In just two weeks Tennessee has already matched their win total for the entire 2014 season.
  • With just eight matches under their belt, the Lady Vols have already had three matches with eight or fewer hitting errors this season. That matches or betters every full season for the past 15 years except one.
  • Lexi Dempsey and Kanisha Jimenez picked up double doubles this past weekend. It was the 26th of Dempsey’s career and the seventh of Jimenez’. They now have the sixth and 16th most double doubles of any UT players in rally-scoring era matches.
  • Tennessee has notched a .230 hitting percentage or better in all but a single match this season. They haven’t allowed an opponent more than .185.
  • The Lady Vols have started the season with an eight match winning streak. That’s the third best season-starting run in school history (counting only best of five matches), and the 10th longest (best of five) winning streak in program history.

    UT ALL-TIME WINNING STREAKS
    bold years are season-starting streaks
    1980 22*
    1973 20*
    2004 14
    2011 13
    2011 11
    1986 11
    1982 11*
    2008 9
    2005 9
    2004 9
    2004 9
    1983 9
    1973 9*
    2015 8
    1982 8
    1982 8
    1979 8*
    * streak includes shorter best of three matches